@BattleStarX: Volkner was just bored because idiots kept failing horribly against him. He was actually a pretty normal guy, for a genius engineer. Elesa didn't really have any insanity. She was just married to her job(s). Game Clemont didn't show up enough to even have much of a character...

She actually seems alright, personality-wise. Then again, we know there's some stuff going on with her (as well as electricity powers or something like that). We'll see if I feel sorry for her by the time her gym gets blown up :p

I not sure why no one has mentioned this yet but if she inherited the gym from her father and had no idea how the bins work why would she leave them there.
Maybe she doesn't like challengers but so far her personality seems fine to me.

If there was ever a gym leader to follow Atty, this should be the one. Just her unrelenting, boisterous cheerfulness would be a great contrast to George's zany lack of logic and Atty's resigned fatalism.

@Roach: Pretty sure it's supposed to be a version of the onomatopoeic 'hrm' that's just been lengthened into a phonetically similar but technically different word. Like that batman comic that used 'BATHROOM' as the sound of a truck collision/explosion.

Ah, so does this mean the characters in this comic are understood to be speaking Japanese as in the original game? I hasn't considered that, given the UK colloquialisms in the dialog. Pretty cool, though.